Reaching out, Connecting
What CoCC Advocates Do -
2. Reaching out, Connecting
2. Reaching out, Connecting
As a CoCC advocate for your community, you reach out to your friends, fellow church members and other people in your community, establishing relationships, determining who are those that could use a little help and who are those that would be willing to help meet simple needs. Your joy in serving God and our fellow man will be a great inspiration to others who are also needed and ready for this work.
To borrow a phrase from Mary Baker Eddy, we have been brought together “to minister and to be ministered unto…” The resources noted below should help you share information about CoCC with a friend or even give a short presentation to members of your church community.
Here are some ideas for reaching out!
The Bible
“For if there be first a willing mind, it is accepted according to that a man hath, and not according to that he hath not. For I mean not that other men be eased, and ye burdened: But by an equality, that now at this time your abundance may be a supply for their want, that their abundance also may be a supply for your want: that there may be equality:” (II Corinthians 8:12–14)
Science & Health
The rich in spirit help the poor in one grand brotherhood, all having the same Principle, or Father; and blessed is that man who seeth his brother’s need and supplieth it, seeking his own in another’s good. (S&H 518:15–19)
Helpful Resources
for Reaching out, Connecting
“The Art of the Visit” Webinar, Session III, “Relating to others”
Overview of
”What a CoCC does”
Examples of what can be done
“The Simple Needs Ministry Project”
How did CoCC come to be?
”The CoCC Story”
What about … ?
”Frequently Asked Questions”
Blog Posts
Relating to others:
”Fellowship” (8/19/2023)
CSPS Articles from the Periodicals
“Fellowship: Learning from the early Christians,” Susan Angle Damone, Christian Science Sentinel, June 3, 2024
Practicing Christian Fellowship, Phil Davis, Christian Science Journal, June 2013